Imposition Template Program

Most printers here do not have or use imposition software. The usual procedure is to make a paging dummy to use as a guide in placing the pages on the signatures using In Design. Making a page dummy for jobs with many pages (eg. 548 pp.) can be a difficult and error prone task.

I was able to make a program for making the imposition guide using Xcel. With this program, you choose the type of binding and just input the number of pages. The guide can then be printed out to be used by the layout artist and even the offset operator.

This is the Xcel page where the type of binding and number of pages is inputed.